xxxi, 508 pages ; 23 cm

Anthology of movie reviews originally published in Nation magazine

Includes index

Arbuckle and the IWW / Catherine Hofteling -- The talkies / Alexander Bakshy -- The regulation of films / Oswald Garrison Villard -- Mass movies / Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein -- The season in Moscow / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Ivan the Terrible ; David Wark Griffith / James Agee -- The great Chaplin chase / Ernest Callenbach -- Charlie's Chaplin / John Houseman -- Griffith's Russian fans / Robert Sklar -- The church and the movies / Paul Blanshard -- Warner Bros. before the code / Stuart Klawans -- The "odyssey" of Disney / James Thurber -- Einstein in Hollywood / George S. Kaufman -- Hollywood Djinn / Nelson Algren -- Goodbye to Mr. Stark / Ring Lardner, Jr. -- The movies and me / Michael Moore -- Hollywood plays with fascism / Carey McWilliams -- No soap boxes in Hollywood / Morrie Ryskind -- Hollywood fights back / Herbert Kline -- Hollywood goes to war / Dorothy Jones -- Revolt in Hollywood / Somerset Logan -- Hollywood is a Union town / Morton Thompson -- Rhapsody in black and blue / Gates Ward -- Hollywood in black and white / John Oliver Killens -- Runaway shops / Marc Cooper -- The grand inquisition / I.F. Stone -- Hollywood gray list / Carey McWilliams -- Hollywood meets Frankenstein / "X" -- Blacklist=black market / Dalton Trumbo -- Honor the blacklistees / Victor Navasky -- Marilyn Monroe: 1926-1962 / Lincoln Kirstein -- Manchurian candidate in Dallas / Richard Condon -- A feast for open eyes / Susan Sontag -- Fuzz's progress / Diane Di Prima -- Andy Warhol, movie maker / Howard Junker -- Hollywood international / John Grierson -- Letters from Italy / William Weaver -- Film from the Vietcong / Peter Gessner -- Fictionalizing the truth in Latin America / Ariel Dorfman -- Gatt and the shape of our dreams / Daniel Singer -- Freedom and the dream factory / Marcel Ophuls -- The last uprising / Carl Bromley -- It must have been___" / Sidney Lumet -- The new Custerism / David Seals -- JFK and JFK / Alexander Cockburn -- The tie that binds / Nora Ephron -- Exchange / Oliver Stone, Alexander Cockburn -- Out in Hollywood / Paul Rudnick -- Get thee behind me, Disney! / Katha Pollitt -- Culture watch: Alien Nation / John Leonard -- Bulworth agonists / Patricia Williams -- The Clinton-Douglas debates / Christopher Hitchens -- Looking for Mr. Right / David Corn -- Inside Indiewood / Peter Biskind -- War games / James Der Derian -- The path of the movies / Gilbert Seldes -- King Kong / William Troy -- Snow White / Mark Van Doren -- Citizen Kane / Anthony Bower -- Dumbo / Siegfried Kracauer -- The curse of the cat people ; National Velvet ; Zero de conduite/L'atalante / James Agee -- Fight films ; John Huston ; French movies ; Sunset Boulevard ; Strangers on a train ; Jerry Lewis ; A streetcar named Desire ; Sister Carrie ; Times Square moviegoers ; 3-D films ; Roman holiday / Manny Farber -- Blow-up / Robert Hatch -- The battle of Algiers / Harold Clurman -- Gimme shelter ; Jaws ; Star wars ; Grease / Robert Hatch -- Terms of endearment / Peter Biskind -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ; Another country ; Red dawn ; A passage to India ; Rambo: first blood part 2/Birdy ; My beautiful laundrette / Andrew Kopkind -- Platoon ; Rendez-vous/scene of the crime / Terence Rafferty -- Wedding in Galilee/Friendship's death / Edward Said -- Do the right thing ; Jurassic Park/Last action hero ; Three colors: red ; Lone star ; Eyes wide shut ; Magnolia / Stuart Klawans

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